Hexbear’s new head of operations just dropped, and their way of dealing with the fallout of their last struggle session is to hand bans out like candy to their concerned and disillusioned users while throwing out “epic” quips like insecure teenagers along the way coupled with their communication (and seemingly contempt) towards their own userbase which isn’t helping their allegations at all and the revelations that were learned about Hexbear’s moderators and admins from their most recent struggle session.
The last few days have honestly shaken my faith in Hexbear and their team and I hope the mods and admins at Lemmygrad are monitoring the situation closely.
Same thing that destroyed leftypol years ago: immature mods, cliques and egos.
man why are leftist spaces online like this? feels like they’re too busy shooting themselves on the foot constantly to get their shit together while fascism and reich-wingers are taking over everything.
at least this isn’t a problem in the grad from what i’ve seen (and hopefully never will)
They don’t start off this way. People usually start-up communities out of genuine passion, but as time goes on the only people willing to babysit/moderate the community are people who spend a lot of time on the internet already. Eventually, the whole mod team becomes people who do nothing else but chat about the community/forum. As they reinforce each other, in their minds the importance of their community/forum grows. No longer is it a fun internet site, now it’s serious business, and that means that bad actors want to destroy. Then they give themselves carte blanche to “protect” the community. Naturally, with that kind of mindset anyone who disagrees with them is a potential threat, everyone who posts could be a bad actor in disguise, pretending so as to gain the community’s trust.
What do you get? An insular, paranoid community, resistant to change, distrustful of new people, ruled by a mod clique with their own agenda.
I don’t know enough about Hexbear to make a judgment, those are just my general observations, but from little I’ve seen I think it is happening there too. The whole “I wasn’t lying to you users! It was all a sneaky ruse!” bit is actually sus, feels like damage control after being found out. The HB mods have clearly made their decision without the community and now they’re trying to find a way to frame the change so that it doesn’t piss off the userbase and result in them losing power or worse losing the userbase over whom they lord over. I haven’t seen an apology to the effect of “maybe we were wrong to delete the community” or “maybe we should have consulted the userbase”, it’s all “sorry we handled it poorly” and “I’m sorry we’re bad at communicating!” Very disingenuous.
If there’s a silver lining, I don’t think this is limited to leftist spaces, or even to online ones.
Yeah, I don’t know why people frame this as a leftist thing. It might happen more, but it’s not unique.
For the older folks out there; you have seen this sort of thing happen on MMORPGs certainly. In my anecdote, it happened to me in real life with a debate club I was in when I was younger lmao.
Leftypol is still kicking well enough, all the spinoff chans are mostly dead as far as I’m aware
Nah, it’s a shit site. Run over by incels and sex/dating threads, plus too much porn/nsfw content. Some users were really adamant to allow porn on the site, even though one can find porn literally anywhere on the internet. Just goes to show the priorities of the people there. All the good posters are gone.